Rihanna Quotes

But who is it that has made my people drunk? Indians cannot make whiskey. Indians do not sell it. But white people make it and bring it among us. It is they that have brought the evil upon us and we cannot remove it. The white people can remove it and now we call upon them to do it. We ask them to take their whiskey and run away, and leave us sober as they found us.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

I can drink like a fish, or at least, someone born with fetal alcohol syndrome.

I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

In my family, they were all big boozers.

The white traders keep these poor Indians continually under the force of liquor. They entirely estrange the affections of the Indians from the English.

Alcohol remained, and remains, a vital instrument of social control, used without any regard to its horrifying consequences in addiction and violence.

Our poor children are suffering every day for want of necessities of life…All this is for the love of strong drink.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Liquor traffic is un-American, pro-German, crime-procuring, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable.

The greatest pleasure of this people [Russians] is drunkenness.

Prohibition created more drunks than anything else.

[Referring to alcohol:] After the lapse of nearly fifty years of undisputed political freedom, the blood-freezing clank of a cruel bondage is still heard.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.